The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-04
QUA DUMB FRIENDS.

A Charming Little sketch by whittier, the
Good Quaker Poet'
It was said of St Francis, OF Asslssl,
that he had attained, through the Ter
vor of his love, the secret of that deep
amitv with God and His creation which,
in the language of inspiration, makes
man 70 be in league with the stones OF
the field, and the beasts of the held
TO be at peace with him. The world
has never been without tender souls,
with whom the golden rule has a
broader application than its letter
might seem to warrant. The ancient
Eastern seers recognized the rights Oh
the brute creation, and regarded the
| unnecessary taking of the life OF the
hunfbIest and meanest as SIM and IN
almost all the old religions of the world
there are legends Of saints in the depth
of whose peace win GJts and nature ak
life was sacredly regarded as the price
/ less gift of Heaven, and who were thus
enabled to dwell safely amid lions ana
serpents.
| " is cyeditable to human nature and
IFS nnnsrverted instincts that stories
and anecdotes of reciprocal kindness
and affection between men and ami
mails are always listened to with III
terest and approval How pleasant to
think of the Arab and his horse, whose
friendship has been celebrated in song
and romance. OF Vogelweid, the Min
nesinrer, and his bequest to the birds.
OF the English Quaker visited wher-
ever he went by 1ocks of birds, who,
J with cries of Joy. alighted on his broad
brimmed hat and his drab coat sleeves
OF old Samuel johnson, when half
blind and infrm, CROPPING abroad OF an
evening for oysters for his cat. vi
Walter Scott and John Brown Of Edtn-
burgh aud their dogs. OF our own
Thoreau. instinctively recognized by
bird and beast as a friend. Emerson
savs of him: His intimacy with
animals suggested what Thomas
Fuller records of Butler, the
apiolopist, that either he had
toId the bees things or tie bees had told
n;.o, Snakes coiled around his legs
tho fsiiea swan into his hand 10 pulled
the woodchuck out of his hole ~ his
tail and took foxes under his protection
from the hunters"
In the 0TtaItSL DE biAC alAAi'stAt -N''-NNN-
poems-the sacred book of the MahaD-
harata-there is passage Of exception
r al beauty and tenderness. which records
the reception Of King Yudiauthird al
, the gate of Paradise. A pilgrim 20 the
: heavenly city. the King had Travelled
+ over vast spaces, and one by one the
, loved ones, the companions Of his Jour
, nov had all fallen and left him alone
t save his faithful dog, which still fol
= lowed. He was met ty Indra and IN
t vited to enter the holy city, But tn
/ King thinks of his friends who hav
f fallen on the way and declines 70 90 II
- without them. The god tells him the.
are all within waiting for him. JOY
+ full, he ls about to seek them, when b
o looks upon she poor deg weary ant
Y wasted, crouches at his feet. and ask
! that he, too, may enter the z tie. lndr
10 refuses, and thereupon the King dt
s clares that to abandon his faithful an
+ dumb friend would be be as great a s.
IS as to Kill a Brahmin.
# Away with felicity whose price Is 70 aoanlo
- the faithful
s Never. come veal or woe, viii leave my talIi
The moor creature, in fear and distress, hi
- trusted in my power 70 save him;
: Not therefore for life itself, viii break H
:e plighted word.
n In full sight of heaven he Choose
= To 90 to hell with his dog, and stralSh
n way descends. as he supposes, thithe
But his virtue and faithfulness chang
IN his destination to heaven, and he find
,e himself surrounded by his Old frienc
Oh and in the presence Of the gods, wi
thus honor and reward his humani'
,g and unselfish Low IL q. Whttt1eF'
= ! Otly Dumb AafBl1ts.